Las Kellies

Hey Las Kellies! Did I wake you from your post-lunch siesta?
Here in Buenos Aires no one has siestas! We run a lot around the city and try to eat light. Today we ate lentil burgers with salad and vegetable croquetas. Everyone eats a lot of meat in Argentina, but we are vegetarians.

Would you consider wearing a bikini made out of veggies to one of your concerts? Or would you wear meat dresses à la Lady Gaga?
I think we should do the first option for our vegetarian friends! We would probably make our bikinis out of potatoes, tomatoes, rocket, broccoli and palta (avocado) because we love it! Two avocado halves would make a good bikini bra, their pits are so huge, haha! Argentinian verdulerias are the best!

So, you sing in Spanish, English, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Catalan and French. That’s a whole mouthful of languages! Is the food you make just as multicultural?
We try. We love falafel and cous cous. We even have a song called Cous Cous, that’s how awesome we think it is. We should write a song about falafel and rap it in Arabic! We will put the lyrics through Google Translate and make the computer sing it for us. I love falafel, me encanta el falafel, انا احب الفلافل ! The music video would feature us and our gang getting really drunk and going to a falafel place and rapping with our Arabic bros.

Brilliant! So if you could have a food fight with anyone who would you target and with what foodstuff?!
We are very peaceful, we wouldn’t want to hurt anyone. We would throw something soft like a banana pudding. However, one time a bunch of teenagers threw an egg at Ceci so now she thinks she wants revenge, so she would throw a six pack of bananas. Bananas are soft fruits but then they also look like guns, scary!

Can we talk about sweets? Have you ever jumped out of a birthday cake?
No! But WE LOVE SWEETS! We have the best sweets in Argentina! Have you tried dulce de leche? It’s fucking amazing! An Argentinian eats dulce de leche about twice a day, on pancakes or on its own, which is still not enough if you ask us. Then there’s alfajores de maicena, cakes made with dulce de leche, they are everywhere! We are going to teach you how to make pastelitos, little Argentinian pastries with quince, here’s the recipe:

Pastelitos de dulce de membrillo

Ingredients:

500g plain flour

300g butter

100g sugar

200g quince jelly

Some water

Pinch of salt

Vegetable oil for frying

On a clean tabletop, make a mound of flour with a pinch of salt and put 150g of butter in the centre. Mix and squish until it combines, add a cup of water little by little until the dough is smooth. Leave for 20 minutes.
Roll out the dough into a 2.5cm thick layer. Spread 50g of melted butter on top, sprinkle some more flour and fold over three times. Repeat.
Put the dough in the fridge for 30 minutes.
Roll out the dough into a 3mm thick layer and cut it into 8x8cm squares.
Put a bit of quince in the middle of a square. Dab some water around the quince and the pastry’s edges and place another square on top. Press lightly around the quince to create a seal and then around the edges of the square. Take the two diagonal corners of each square and pull them towards the centre and pinch them together. Do the same with the other two corners to make a little boat shape.
Heat a generous portion of oil in a pan over medium-high heat. Place the pastelitos in the pan and fry until golden. Drain on a paper towel.
In a separate saucepan, heat the sugar and half a cup of water and boil. This is called almibar. Let it thicken slightly, remove from heat and then drizzle over the pastelitos!

Las Kellies play at Roodkapje in Rotterdam on 28 June. The show is free for Subbacultcha! members. Other live dates: 24 June OCCII, Amsterdam.